About Me

If you’re living with social or performance anxiety, this website was created for you. If you fear public speaking, avoid social interaction, fight to hide your anxiety symptoms around other people—or just feel like you’re different or don’t fit in—you’ll feel at home here!

Here you will find articles on every aspect of social anxiety to help you learn about it, manage it, get help for it, and become your own best teacher and self-help expert.

If you want to get started and jump right in, these are the posts I recommend:

My name is Arlin. Although I’m not a licensed therapist, I have a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and I’m the author of a self-help book for anxiety (The Anxiety Workbook).

I also have articles about social anxiety published at various places around the Internet including Verywell, The Mighty, etc. I’ve been writing about social anxiety for over 10 years.

I’ve also experienced social and performance anxiety myself and overcome a public speaking phobia. So—I understand how social/performance anxiety feels from a first-hand perspective, which isn’t always true of professionals in this field.

If you’d like to learn more about my background and education you can find that on LinkedIn.

How I Hope to Help You

Why write about social anxiety?

I feel like social anxiety is still the elephant in the room that nobody talks about. My hope is that this site will help you by showing you that you’re not alone.

I also hope to save you time and energy by bringing together a set of coping strategies all in one spot.

To get started with this, I’ve created a downloadable set of FREE cognitive-behavioral therapy worksheets for social anxiety. These worksheets will help you identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop realistic coping strategies.

When you sign up to receive the worksheets, you will also be subscribed to my free weekly newsletter where I share tips and tricks, and relate the day-to-day happenings in my life that relate to social anxiety and how I get through them.

My newsletter is my favorite place to connect, so I wouldn’t want you to miss out.

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